One question keeps playing on a loop in my head – what are all the de Brimonts doing in Brighton? Well, one easy explanation springs to mind; they’re on their way back to France, having a break at the seaside before they make the channel crossing. On the other hand, the census seems to suggest both families have engaged servants, as though they’ve been here a while.
And Charles de Brimont has brought his whole family – wife Alice and five children, including André, Catherine’s future husband. Perhaps after Edgar de Brimont adopted my 2x great-aunt from the orphanage, Charles has come over to England to keep an eye on him, in case he does something else daft…
Which reminds me: a confession. In all the excitement of finding the second de Brimont family on the census, I
